Braid.



110.746,548. PATBNTED DBG.8,1903. M. MITTENDURPP.

BRAID.

APPITIOTION TILED SEPT. 24, 1902. SPBOIHBNS.

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` UNITED STATES Patented :December S, 1903.

,PATENT OFFICE.

MAX MITTENDORFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE SU'TRO BROTHERSBRAID COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- TION OF NEW YORK.

BRAI D SPECIFICATION formngpart of '.l'settersV Patent No. 746,548,dated December 8, 19103. Application filed September 24,1902.SerialNo.124,708. (Specimens.)

To all whom if may concern,.-

Be it known that I, MAX MITTENDORFF, a citizen of the United States,residing at Manhattan borough, New York city, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inBraids, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in braids adaptedto produce bow effects on the surface thereof. This effect is producedby one or more braids or other suitable fabric or material, which isoverbraided in the usual manner known in the art, in whichfilling-threads are inserted in a braid and which material is pushedthrough or extended out of the plane of the outer or main braid or themoving threads while making the braid, so as to form loops on thesurfaceof such outer or main braid. These loops when pressed flat in oppositedirections form a succession of bows running parallel with the edge ofor longitudinally to the main or inclosing braid, which, as stated, isoverbraided to engage or secure the second or bow-forming braid orfabric.

The invention is fully described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and is pointed out in the claims. l

Figure l is a face view of afbraid embodying my invention, theadditional or filling 'fabric being so interwoven with the usual`braided threads as to form on the exposed surface of the braid asuccession of bows connected by a raised ridge, the latter beingproduced by the filling material having been covered by thebraiding-threads. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the same braidalong at, Fig. l, showing the bows appearing on the surface. Fig. 3 is asection along y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a modification.

In the drawings the main threads (marked a a) are diagonally braidedtogether in the ordinary way. The additional or lling fabric b in Figs.1, 2, and 3,'for instance, forms a core or warp, around which the mainthreads a a are braided except where such additional fabric appears asloops of the bows on the outside of the main threads, as shown in Figs.l, 2, and 3.

The drawings represent some samples showinghow the bows will appear onthe surface of a braid,`the arrangement of which can of course be variedin numerous ways.

By referring to the inner or bow-forming part b as a braid 7 it isnotintended to limit the invention, asA any suitable fabric or beradapted to form bows or loops can be employed. As the invention,hoWeVer,-relates to the class of braids, the inner or core part b isreadily formed by the employment of a braid ofsuitable color, make, andwidth, or

Arather narrowness,as compared with the main or wider'braid, which isbraided thereover.

The article forming the subject-matter of this invention may bedescribed as a compound braid comprising an outer braid and an inner orinclosed braid, the latter at intervals being extended or looped throughor out of the outer braid to form bows or projections. Such projectingbows can be pressed or ironed onto the face of the main or body braid toform flat bows or loops or left projecting or uniattened, as desired.Such additional or unbraided braid extends longitudinally along the mainbraid, and one or more such rows of additional braid. can be worked intothe main braid and the bows of several rows can be formed at varying orunvarying intervals in alinement or zigzag or any chosen pattern.

It is of course not necessary to mention that the braid can be of anysuitable make, such as open or closed or mixed or of varieties inshading or coloring, as called for. Such or similar details aremanifestly included in the invention.

What I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric havinginterwoven therewith additional fabrics which are pushed out atintervals between adjacent threads of said firstmentioned fabricI toform loops adapted to be pressed into bows.

2. A compound fabric comprising an outer and an inner fabric, parts ofthe latter being pushed through the outer fabric and pressed onto theface. thereof to form fiat bows or loops.

3. A fabric comprising a primary fabric,and a secondary fabric extendingbetween the threads of said primary fabric to produce two ICO loopswhich are pressed in opposite directions l two adjacent loops which arespread out at to form a bow.

4. Afabric Comprisingaprimaryfabric and a secondary fabric extendingtherethrough to form two loops, which are gathered at their their endsand pressed in opposite directions to form a butterfiy bow.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 my hand in the presence oftwo subscribing lower ends and pressed in opposite direct-ionsWitnesses. to form a butterfiy bow.

5. Afabrie comprisinga primary fabrie,and a secondary fabric whichextends along said primary fabric in a gathered condition, and is passedat intervals therethrough to form MAX MITTENDORFF.

Witnesses:

WM. B. WARNER, B. W. SCHLESINGER.

